
The Symbols
Might Mean
Detachment: letting go, shedding one's old life, cutting the cord, playing it cool, hands off, not caring, fragmentation, dissociation, attention deficit, neglect, cold shoulder, apathy, cold blooded, emotionally unavailable, freeze response
Negation: denial, rejection, disapproval, dismissive, repression, deprivation, avoidance, deflection, not my problem, insensitivity, self-denial, harsh, expecting to be hurt, being guarded, suspicion, unselfishness
Impermanence: ending, deadline, quitting, sacrifice, discontinuity, mortality, breaking the cycle, escape, reset, cancelling, abandonment, instability, throw away
Negation: denial, rejection, disapproval, dismissive, repression, deprivation, avoidance, deflection, not my problem, insensitivity, self-denial, harsh, expecting to be hurt, being guarded, suspicion, unselfishness
Impermanence: ending, deadline, quitting, sacrifice, discontinuity, mortality, breaking the cycle, escape, reset, cancelling, abandonment, instability, throw away
For Example
Movie Clips & Videos:
Skinny Jeans Boyfriends Dating Pattern – Your Sister's Sister,
Fire Me, Cocoon of Self-Banishment – Up In The Air
The Challenge of Being Close
The Tree of Life: Crafting an Existential Masterpiece,
The Theme of Eternal Recurrence in Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice,
Mythology of Sacrifice, Refusal of The Suitors - Joseph Campbell
Fire Me, Cocoon of Self-Banishment – Up In The Air
The Challenge of Being Close
The Tree of Life: Crafting an Existential Masterpiece,
The Theme of Eternal Recurrence in Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice,
Mythology of Sacrifice, Refusal of The Suitors - Joseph Campbell
"The snake often means resurrection on account of the shedding of its skin. According to an African myth, there was no death on earth originally, death came by mistake. People could shed their skins every year and so they were always new, rejuvenated, until once an old woman, in a distracted condition and feeble-minded, put on and old skin again and then she died. That is the way in which death came into the world. It is again the idea that human beings were like snake originally, they did not die. The snake was always associated with death, but death out of which new life was born."
– C.G. Jung
Podcasts:
5th Vital Sign (Invisibilia),
Life and Death of a Melody – Loops (Radiolab),
Serial Ghosters (This American Life),
Just Sex: Hookup Culture (Hidden Brain)
5th Vital Sign (Invisibilia),
Life and Death of a Melody – Loops (Radiolab),
Serial Ghosters (This American Life),
Just Sex: Hookup Culture (Hidden Brain)
Writings:
Fables of the Salamander and the Seahorse,
Practicing the Subtle Art of Detachment, Attachment Theory,
When, Why, and How To Say No, Avoider Love Style,
Why Women Stay In Relationships With Unavailable Men,
The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs,
How It Became Normal to Ignore Texts and Emails
Fables of the Salamander and the Seahorse,
Practicing the Subtle Art of Detachment, Attachment Theory,
When, Why, and How To Say No, Avoider Love Style,
Why Women Stay In Relationships With Unavailable Men,
The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs,
How It Became Normal to Ignore Texts and Emails
French Leave, Francis I of France, Detachment (Philosophy), Avoidance,
Avoidance Response, Autotomy, Eternal Return, Learned Helplessness,
Mind-Body Problem, Enso, Emotional Abandonment & Detachment, SPD,
Cancel Culture, Sacrifice, Throw Away Society, Denial, Cycle of Abuse,
Abuse, Counterdependency, Neglect, No Bad Parent Myth, Freeze Response
"The crocodile, as well as the tortoise and any other cold-blooded animal, represents extremely archaic psychology of the cold-blooded thing in us. We have a trace of it in our anatomy, in the structure of the nervous system. That is the thing we never can understand – that somewhere we are terribly cold-blooded. There are people who, under certain circumstances, would be capable of things which they simply could not admit."
– C.G. Jung
"I nourish the good and extinguish the bad" – King Francis 1st
Literature:
The Fox and the Grapes (Aesop),
Life Doesn't Frighten Me (Maya Angelou, Jean-Michel Basquiat)
The Fox and the Grapes (Aesop),
Life Doesn't Frighten Me (Maya Angelou, Jean-Michel Basquiat)
"Dragons breathing flame
On my counterpane
That doesn't frighten me at all."
On my counterpane
That doesn't frighten me at all."

Tarot: Death
Mythology: Sisyphus, Dying-and-Rising Deity, Vulcan
Alchemy: The Golden Head (Splendor Solis)
Mythology: Sisyphus, Dying-and-Rising Deity, Vulcan
Alchemy: The Golden Head (Splendor Solis)
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